"Global Offensive gameplay changes"

Counter-Strike ever was and has been a huge title. Now the company Valve came with a new version, Counter-Striker: Global Offensive, that changed a lot from other versions. It is a new version, than need some improvements, but it comes with some new good stuff. For example new weapons and grenades , they came perfectly for the casual players, but not so much for the competitive. One of the new grenades that doesn’t help the competitive game is the Molotov,  it blocks push made by terrorists or support by counter-terrorists, slowing the game and making it total unbalanced.  For the casual players is just more explosion, fire and fun.

The new version come with 4 different style of games, the Classic Competitive that is the classic style we every played. The Classic Casual is close to the Classic Competitive, the only main differences is that you already start with defuse kit, if Counter-Terrorist, and vest more helmet.  The other 2 modes are Arms Race, called GunGame in the other Counter-Strikes, and demolition, a totally new mode that you play in a small map and if you get a kill you advance one weapon, but just in the next round, the game finish when 1 team win 11 rounds.

Another huge difference is the economy inside the game, in the previous versions when you kill you win $300, but now in the Global Offensive it depends in what weapon you use to kill your enemy. For example if you kill someone with p90 you win $900. Another modification was the cost of the weapons, some weapons now are cheaper, some more expansive.

All maps what the Valve use in this new version are the same of the Counter-Strike: Source, that is not good for the competitive, but ok for casual players. Professional players and designers are modifying the maps for the competitive level of the game, to balance between counter-terrorists and terrorists.

In the bottom lane the game is running good for casual players, but need some improvements for have a good quality to the competitive level as the older versions had.

Andre Molinari

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/08/28/counter-strike-global-offensive-review